I. ASCRC General Education Form
Groups
X: Indigenous and Global Perspectives
Dept/Program
Anthropology
Course #
Course Title
Indigenous Peoples and Global Development
Prerequisite
None
Credits
385
3
II. Endorsement/Approvals
Complete the form and obtain signatures before submitting to Faculty Senate Office
Please type / print name Signature
Date
Instructor
Phone / Email
Neyooxet Greymorning
X4409/neyooxet.greymorning
@mso.umt.edu
Program Chair
John Douglas
Dean
Gerald Fetz
III. Description and purpose of the course: General Education courses must be introductory
and foundational. They must emphasize breadth, context, and connectedness; and relate course
content to students’ future lives: See Preamble:
http://www.umt.edu/facultysenate/gened/GEPreamble_final.htm
This course examines the impact of global development on Indigenous peoples. Its purpose is
for students to examine how development has impacted areas of culture change, health & land.
IV. Criteria: Briefly explain how this course meets the criteria for the group. See:
http://www.umt.edu/facultysenate/ASCRCx/Adocuments/GE_Criteria5-1-08.htm
Group X Indigenous and Global Perspectives
This perspective instills knowledge of diverse
cultures in comparative and thematic frameworks.
Students will learn how geographically and
culturally separate parts of the world are linked by
various, multiple interactions. These courses foster
an appreciation for Indigenous peoples, their
histories and cultures, and their struggles both to
maintain their ways of life and gain equal positions
in world spheres of power and change. Global
studies investigate how societies and nations interact
through human endeavor and /or natural processes.
These courses encourage students to relate their
knowledge of particular parts of the world, with
their individual identities, to larger trends and issues
that affect multiple societies and environments.
These include regional, national, and even
transnational cultural flows, as well as a multiplicity
of environmental processes and economic
relationships.
This course has been taught under this title since
1998. It meets Group X - Indigenous and Global
Perspectives criteria by introducing students to the
way in which industrialization and global
development have impacted Indigenous peoples.
This is accomplished through articles, viewing
video footage, coupled with examination and
discussion throughout the term on how various
Indigenous peoples of Africa, Canada, India, East
Timor, North and South America, Melanesia, the
Philippines, and Papua New Guinea have
historically struggled to maintain their cultures
and ways of life in the face of development and
developers encroaching upon their lives, lands and
resources.
V. Student Learning Goals: Briefly explain how this course will meet the applicable learning
goals. See: http://www.umt.edu/facultysenate/ASCRCx/Adocuments/GE_Criteria5-1-08.htm
1.
place human behavior and cultural ideas into a
wider (global/indigenous) framework, and
enhance their understanding of the complex
interdependence of nations and societies and
their physical environments.
Learning goals are accomplished by having
students become familiar with the diversity of
Indigenous cultures and the physical
environments that these societies live in.
2.
demonstrate an awareness of the diverse ways
humans structure their social, political, and
cultural lives; and
3.
analyze and compare the rights and
responsibilities of citizenship in the 21st century
including those of their own societies and
cultures.
The class will also examine the medium
Indigenous peoples have chosen to define and
represent/express themselves socially, politically
and culturally in resisting development.
By the end of the course students will have
examined, analyzed and gained an appreciation
of Indigenous belief systems, with regard to
worldviews, religious ceremonies, cultural ways,
the impact that Anglo-European culture has had
upon these systems, in the name of development
and the dispossession of land, resources and
cultural rights, and what that means with regard
to the rights and responsibilities that Indigenous
and non-Indigenous peoples hold both
independently and collectively.
Students will also examine and discuss concepts,
reasoning and ethical issues that arise when the
practices of developers and development conflict
with the traditions and life-ways of Indigenous
peoples studied.
VII. Syllabus: Paste syllabus below or attach and send digital copy with form. ⇓ The syllabus
should clearly describe how the above criteria are satisfied. For assistance on syllabus
preparation see: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/syllabus.html
*Please note: As an instructor of a general education course, you will be expected to provide
sample assessment items and corresponding responses to the Assessment Advisory Committee.
Indigenous Peoples & Global Development:
Anthropology 385 Winter 2006
Instructor: Dr. Stephen Greymorning
Rm. 202
Office: Soc. Sci. Building, Rm. 221
Alternate hours by Appointment on Wednesdays. 2:00-300
Class Hours: Tues.& Thurs. 12:40 - 2:00, JRH.
Office Hours: 1230- 2:00, Mon/ Wed.
Office Phone: 243-4409
I. Required readings for this course will be drawn from the following resources: Tribal Peoples & Development
Issues, Genocide in Paradise, Breaking the Iron Bonds, and Reserved Readings Pac.
II. This course is designed to acquaint students with issues as they relate to the impact that industrialization and
global development has had upon Indigenous peoples. Because this is an anthropology class, students will be
introduced to the topic by reading some of the classical anthropological research and literature.
III. Tests will be based on assigned readings, lectures, and videos. It is the students responsibility to keep up with the
assigned readings, lectures and videos if they wish to maximize their best potential for learning and test grades in this
course. Students should assume that where lecture material and information from the text cross, such information will
most likely show up on exams. Lectures will be presented on the premise that students have read the assigned material
and are bringing to the class an inquisitiveness and level of participation that will spark discussions.
lV. Objective: By the end of the course students will have become familiar with the impact that corporations and
development have had on Indigenous cultures.
V. Graded assignments:
A. Short Answer Exam
This exam will consist of 5 short answers (5 pts ea.) and 5 Identifications (2 pts ea.)
B. Mid Term
The mid-term will consist of 29 multiple choice questions (1 pt. ea) and
7 Identification problems (3 pts ea.).
worth 35 pts
worth 50 pts
C. Group Presentation & Discussion (or alternative term synopsis paper)
Each group will provide a summary and assessment of a video, or an assigned section of the course
readings, as well as answer questions. It will be the responsibility of groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 & 8 to
obtain and preview the videos they will be leading discussions on a week in advance of their
discussion so they will be better prepared to discuss their topics . Failure to do so will impact the
group’s grade. Each group will have approximately of 30 minutes to do this assignment. Individual
group members are also required to submit a one page summary of the topics they researched and
planned to cover for their group discussion no later than the day of their discussion.
worth 15 pts
D. Research Paper
The final research paper must fall between 2,000 - 2,200 words in length, anything less or
more than this will result in a lower grade. The paper must be properly referenced, with a
properly written bibliography of no less than 6 references, of which only 2 can be from the
internet. The final paper is due in class on November 28th.
worth 100 pts
Any paper turned in late will have 2 points deducted for each day late.
Vl. Grading Scale :
A = 181 - 200
D = 129 - 140
B = 161 - 180
F = 0 - 128
C = 141 -160
Academic Honesty: Under no circumstances should students represent another person's work or ideas as their own. To
do this is to plagiarize and it is an intolerable offense in the academic community. Students who plagiarize will fail the
assignment, and as a result may fail the course. Students should also be advised that they should not submit the same
paper for more than one course.
Anth 385: Indigenous Peoples & Global Development
Course Outline
WEEK
DISCUSSION TOPICS
READING ASSIGNMENTS:
1 Aug.
Aug.
Tribal Peoples & Development Issues
Course Overview and Introduction
Video: Mistassini Cree ancient lifestyles in a modern world
Introduction & sect's 2 & 3 (20 pages)
2 Sept.
Sept.
The Life of the Hunter
Invasion and Pacification
3 Sept.
Sept.
Assessing the Impact of Contact
Sect's 7, 8 & 9 of Part Three (29 pages)
Video: Act of War: America’s overthrow of the Hawaiian Government
4 Sept.
Sept.
A. SHORT ANSWER EXAM over material from weeks 1-3
The Price of Colonialism on Indigenous Cultures
5 Sept.
Sept.
Video: James Bay II
Section 17 & 18 (29 pages)
Video: James Bay II C. Group 1 presentation & discussion of video topic
Pages 31-32, & sect's 5 & 6 (16 pages)
Pages 114-131 & 137-149 (31 pages)
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6 Oct.
Oct.
The Impact of Resource Exploitation
Video: The Power Over Life
C. Group 2 presentation & discussion of video topic
Sections 19 & 20 (26 pages)
Section, 24 & 25 (19 pages)
7 Oct.
Oct.
Native Sovereignty and Self-government
B. MID TERM up to week 6
Sect's 26 & 27 (26 pages)
8 Oct.
Oct.
Video: The Timor Conspiracy
C. Group 3 presentation & discussion of video topic/theme
9 Oct.
Oct.
Video: The Silenced Majority. A Question of Human Rights
C Group 4 presentation & discussion on video topic/theme
Oct.
GENOCIDE IN PARADISE
Read entire book
Pages 249-269, sect's 24 & 25 (21 pages)
Nov.
Video: Blockade
Sun Peaks: First Nations Land Loss In the Name of the 2010 Olympics
C. Group 5 facilitated discussion on video topic and theme plus Sun Peaks issue
11
Nov.
Nov.
An Indian OPEC meca
C. Group 6 facilitated discussion on chapter topic
Breaking the Iron Bonds
Chapter 4
12
Nov.
Nov.
Resource Management
C. Group 7 facilitated discussion
D. Final Research Paper due last class in November
Chapter 5 (27 pages)
13
Nov.
Nov
Resource Management & Control
THANKSGIVING VACATION
Chapter 7 (30 pages)
14
Nov
Video: Working with NAGPRA
C. Group 8 facilitated discussion
Nov.
Tribes as Developers
15
Dec.
Dec.
Video: Indian Country
C. Group 9 facilitated discussion
16
Dec. 11 - 15
FINALS WEEK: There is no final in this class
Chapter 9